I guess I didn't take a whole lot of food pictures on my earlier trips to Japan. It seems like my folders are all full of airplane food. I got upgraded again this time and there were no kaiseki meals left so I took the western meal. The bread and butter tasted good, but that's about all I can say. They started us off with some kind of salad that was pretty bland.
Then whatever meat that is sitting on the bed of mushy veggies and rice was mediocre at best.
Mister Donut. What a fine donut shop chain that is. What you see below is called kori-coffee. Basically, it's frozen coffee chopped up into little cubes, you pour the milk in and wait for it to melt into ice coffee. It tasted pretty good I suppose. I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but on a hot summer day in Japan, where the air conditioning is only set on mild, it did the trick.
M's Dining is sort of a family restaraunt....sort of like Denny's here.
I had the hambagu steak with some sort of gratin on the side. I love hambagu.
I know the last three posts have been mostly images of airplane food so here's something different. Royal Host is another family restaraunt type place in Japan, similar to Denny's. It's a bit more upscale than M's dining, or Skylark or Gusto. After a long night of debauchery and drunken madness, we quietly went to a Royal Host for a nice, greasy hang-over cure. This was my hambagu and rice. Hambagu is not quite the same as the Hamburger as we know it in North America. It's still a meat patty, but sometimes it's a mix of beef and pork, and often times it's served on a skillet or on rice with sauce and other stuff.
My friend decided pizza and sandwiches woud best cure his hangover.
Someone else had ebi-fry (deep fried prawns) and some kind of omlet with a side of salad
Some kind of fried rice, skewers, fried egg, and some shrimp chips for good measure.
Here we have a sundae with only one scoop of ice cream visible. Red beans, mochi, fruit and some other stuff. The best thing after every greasy breakfast. Some of the other patrons in the restaraunt were giving us funny looks for ordering all that greasy food first thing in the morning. But they weren't there the night before, they had no idea.
